"No one knows what John Harvard (1607-1638) looked like" reads a label in the revised, enlarged, and informative Harvard Events and Information Center in the Holyoke Center arcade, "but at least two artists have tried to give him a human face." The vibrant image above, the label explains, comes from a cigar-box top (circa 1908). The silhouettes are patterned on the Yard's most photographed object, Daniel Chester French's 1884 statue of the "founder." Photograph by Flint Born

No sooner had Jeremy R. Knowles put into print his fears about retaining members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as peer institutions adopt a "star system" of compensation ("The Art and Science of Deaning," May-June, page 85) than the New York Times reported, in "New Breed of College All-Star," how Columbia had lured Robert J. Barro, Ph.D. '70, Harvard's Waggoner professor of economics, away from Cambridge. The article detailed the marquee value of a professor who commands "top dollar"--a $300,000 salary, a $55,000-per-year spousal job, a subsidized apartment with renovation allowance--and the "wine-drenched dinner" at which Knowles made a counteroffer. The latter did not immediately prevail, but perhaps the publicity had an effect. Soon afterward, Barro decided to stay put in Littauer.

K.S.G. in D.C.

Just months after the Business School established its California Research Center, Harvard's first remote branch ("Brevia," March-April, page 69), the Kennedy School has set its sights on Washington. This summer, it will open an office on--appropriately enough--Massachusetts Avenue. The facility will provide offices for visiting researchers, conference space, and a venue for short-term executive-education programs, and will be available to faculty members and researchers throughout the University. In the meantime, the Business School is setting up its second outpost, in Hong Kong.

Public-Service Professional

Phillips Brooks House Association has its first professional executive director. Paul McDonald comes to PBHA, through which 1,700 undergraduates volunteer in a wide array of social-service activities, from Residential Rehabilitation Centers Inc., a Cape Cod nonprofit organization serving abused girls and people with severe eating disorders. He reports both to PBHA's trustees, for programmatic matters, and to Judith H. Kidd, the College's assistant dean for public service, on financial, legal, and safety issues. This dual structure, agreed to last fall, resolves a protracted dispute over PBHA's structure and management (see "PBHA Returns to the Fold," November-December 1997, page 69).

Earth Mover

The Crafoord Prize, conferred by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for disciplines not covered by Nobel Prizes, was awarded jointly to Adam M. Dziewonski, Baird professor of science, and Don L. Anderson, of Caltech. Dziewonski was recognized for pioneering techniques for mapping and studying the planet's interior using seismic waves from earthquakes.

Math Masters

For the tenth time in 12 years, a Harvard team has won the national undergraduate William Putnam Mathematical Competition. The championship team consisted of Samuel Grushevsky '99, Dragos N. Oprea '00, and Stephen S. Wang '98. Harvard contestants took four of the six "fellows" awards for top individual scores, and 14 of the top 58 individual scores among the 2,510 contestants nationwide. The competition was proposed by William Lowell Putnam, A.B. 1882, LL.B. 1886, and funded in 1927 by his widow, Elizabeth Lowell Putnam. At her death, in 1935, administration passed to the Mathematical Association of America.

Wait 'til Fall

Harvard has selected the principal architect for its proposed Knafel Center for Government and International Studies: Henry N. Cobb '47, M.Arch. '49. A founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Cobb chaired the architecture department at the Graduate School of Design from 1980 to 1985 and is well acquainted with the University's intended site for the building--behind Coolidge and Gund Halls, in the block bounded by Cambridge, Quincy, and Kirkland Streets and Sumner Road. At a public meeting with neighbors and other Cambridge citizens on April 30, Cobb heard a series of objections to Harvard's initial plans for the center (see "Limits to Growth?," March-April, page 65). In reply, he said he considered the neighborhood, as well as the University, part of his constituency and asked for further community input, adding that he expected to make initial recommendations about the project in the late summer or early fall.

Divinity Development

With plans already underway to renovate and expand the Divinity School's library, Dean Ronald F. Thiemann has announced another real-estate development. Facing a severe space shortage, and unable to expand into the surrounding residential neighborhood, the school will convert Divinity Hall back to academic uses. Erected in 1825--and, in Samuel Eliot Morison's words, "then embedded in rustic woodlands"--it was Harvard's first building located outside the Yard. It was converted to dormitories in 1910 and is now surrounded by the biological laboratories and herbarium. University-owned housing on Beacon Street in Somerville will be made available for divinity students, freeing the Divinity Hall space. Boston architect Gail Woodhouse, M.Arch. '80, has been hired to prepare an integrated plan for the library work and Divinity Hall reversion, including restoration of the latter's chapel. Construction is scheduled to begin next year, once suffi-

cient funds are in hand.

Comes the Millennium

President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton inaugurated a series of "Millennium Evenings" at the White House with a lecture by Bernard Bailyn, Ph.D. '53, Adams University Professor emeritus and this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, a national honor. Not surprisingly, the historian welcomed the future by consulting the past. Bailyn said that though Americans "are often described as a young nation, with a shallow history," we in fact "live remarkably close to our past," in the form of the Constitution, the Federalist papers, and the legacies of slavery, Puritanism, and "a strange combination of a belief, a faith, in government, and a fear of power."

Nota Bene

Family reunion. Returning to Cambridge from Cornell, Sheila Sen Jasanoff '64 (mathematics), Ph.D. '73 (linguistics), J.D. '76, joins the Kennedy School this fall as professor of science and public policy, with joint appointments in the School of Public Health and Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Accompanying her will be husband Jay Jasanoff '63, Ph.D. '68, a new professor of linguistics in FAS. Their son, Alan '92, received his Ph.D. in biophysics in June. Daughter Maya, a history and literature concentrator, graduated in 1996.

Data-processing departure. Anne H. Margulies, assistant provost for information systems throughout Harvard, left the University in May to become executive vice president at McDermott/O'Neill & Associates, a Boston public-relations and communications firm. She came to Harvard in 1986 to manage the installation of the current telephone and data communications network, and has recently overseen Project ADAPT, the replacement of Harvard's accounting and financial systems.

Women and religion. The Women's Studies in Religion program has a new director, Ann D. Braude, who previously taught at Macalester and Carleton Colleges. The program, established in 1980, brings five visiting scholars to the Divinity School each year.

Honored historian. Thomas J. Sugrue, Ph.D. '92, associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, won a Bancroft Prize, among the discipline's highest awards for scholarly books, for The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.

Green team. Harvard's recycling program earned the college and university recycling award of MassRecycle, a state coalition, for collecting 2,300 tons of recyclables last year. That represented 24 percent of the waste stream, a rate deemed "excellent for an urban campus with historic buildings."

Esteemed editor. Robert Coles '50, professor of psychiatry and medical humanities, and Agee professor of social ethics, has now been recognized in another realm. DoubleTake, the magazine he cofounded and edits, won a National Magazine Award for general excellence on the strength of "extraordinary photographs" that "document ordinary life."